How early can Cancer strike?

[slowthestone]

If there was a vomit smilie...I'd so be using it in this thread.

[birdgirl73]

I look forward to our meeting. If you can tolerate a long haired 50 year old pot smokin hippie full of tears, and very over-protective of those i care about, and those i havent even met.., then i'm your guy.:thumbsup: dai*ma:stoned: sfca

I can tolerate you, believe me! If you can tolerate a slightly more establishment-looking 44-year-old tall teary-eyed woman, also fiercely over-protective of those she cares for, we'll be in good shape.

Let me ask you this, Daima, and I apologize if it's too personal. Do you find that the grief is getting better over time? Or is it just as bad now as it was in 1989 when she passed? I'm trying to prepare myself for what the next stage and the time afterwards will be like, strange as that may sound. My sister's starting to enter a period now where she's having enough pain that, in some ways, I think the end will be a relief. I know I'll be tremendously sad once it's over, but I'm can't believe it'll be as tremendously sad as it is now watching her endure this.

Peace and love, my friend. Peace and love.

[Ganjasaurusrex]

Just wondering. I've been smoking cigarettes daily for a little shorter than a year. Quitting is hard. But I have no excuses, when I'm seriously ready to quit I believe I will.

Hey sinisterK,

Cancer can strike at any age when it comes to smoking.

Until you quit I highly recommend increasing your ascorbic acid, (vitamin c) intake to protect the collagen of your lungs.

Smoking introduces high amounts of oxidized free radicals onto the surface of the lung lining. These need to be neutralized before they destroy healthy tissue in seeking that extra electron as an oxidized molecule is deficient of an electron.

There is actually no set amount of ascorbic acid to take. It is very safe and not toxic until doses of 500 grams/24 hrs are reached. I would be more worried about the mercury amalgam used in teeth fillings.........the most toxic substance on the planet.

2-5 grams/24 hrs. divided 4 times/day of ascorbic acid will keep blood ascorbic plasma levels constant as they are quickly depleted under illness, stress and smoking.

Just use your search box. (ascorbic acid smoking) you will get plenty of hits and info.

Ascorbic acid, (vitamin c) is in a group of one of the most powerful biological reducing agents known. Essential for many physiolgical functions of the body.
Not really a vitamin but a mild acid. it carries two spare electrons to donate to an oxidized free radical, which can prevent the oxidized molecule from stealing that from healthy tissue and starting the cancer process.

You cannot survive more than 200 days without it. That is a fact of scurvy and pre-scurvy or acute induced scurvy, or multiple disease states, such as weak arteries, infections, depression, etc. The list is long.

Use non-synthetic vitamin E, another anti-oxidant also with all tocopherols and tocotrienols, d-gamma tocopherol and d-beta and d-delta tocopherols
which make a complete vitamin E complex. There are a total of 8.

I probably dont have to tell you that there are over 400 other toxic chemicals in cigarettes used to process the tobacco, including ordinary table sugar which tobacco manufacturers added, because when burned is highly addictive. It makes for long term customers.


You can quit smoking, I know you can. After you quit, its a good idea to continue taking antioxidants.


Have a good one.

[daima]

I can tolerate you, believe me! If you can tolerate a slightly more establishment-looking 44-year-old tall teary-eyed woman, also fiercely over-protective of those she cares for, we'll be in good shape.

Let me ask you this, Daima, and I apologize if it's too personal. Do you find that the grief is getting better over time? Or is it just as bad now as it was in 1989 when she passed? I'm trying to prepare myself for what the next stage and the time afterwards will be like, strange as that may sound. My sister's starting to enter a period now where she's having enough pain that, in some ways, I think the end will be a relief. I know I'll be tremendously sad once it's over, but I'm can't believe it'll be as tremendously sad as it is now watching her endure this.

Peace and love, my friend. Peace and love.

We kept Dao pretty drugged up. She just stopped breathing one morning. I do believe that she welcomed her death. For me, some days are better than others. I have a cabin up in the mountains here in Northern California, and sometimes when i go up there by myself i get very very sad and lonely for her. I will be walking a trail and just scream out her name and start crying like a kid who was told the world just ran out of captain crunch cereal. To this day its hard to believe she is still gone. I have pretty much remained single since. I made my living in a music studio here in San Francisco as a studio musician/guitarist/fiddle player, and did some writing/co-writing.
I have a son and a daughter, along with a 3 grandkids. They started as early as i did. ohboy.
My son is currently in the Marines, and my daugter has went back to college down in Santa Clara California,@ Santa Clara University. I am pretty much a full time gramps.
I will keep your sister in my thoughts. I am not the prayer type at all, but i do consider the well being of others who face uncertainty in their lives.
Would you care to share her name with me?
If you ever feel like you need to vent, just consider myself available.
I found myself very very angry for the longest time, and still get quite pissed when i think about how Dao got cheated out of life, her kids, and her grand children.

Peace,
dai*ma

[birdgirl73]

Thanks for your insights, Daima, and your offer of a venting outlet. Both are helpful and very welcome.

My sister's name is Bess, short for Elizabeth, and while I'm not the prayer type at all, either, I appreciate the positive thoughts and energies others invest on her behalf. I appreciate prayers, too, from people with that inclination. I just probably won't ever be one of them.

I have the anger reaction to Bess' illness, too, and I'm sure that'll be part of the grief afterwards. She's only 50 and has so much more life to live. It's just so unfair. She was an elementary teacher, and she has always been very close to our son, who's 20 and in college now. I know she very much wants to see him graduate and start his life, have his own kids. But unless there's a miracle, that's not going to happen.

I'm not lucky enough to have grandkids yet, but I can't wait till I do. I wanted badly to have more than one baby, but it just wasn't in the cards for me. Actually, I can wait a little while on the grandkids. My son has a bit of a "playa" streak, and I currently live in fear that he'll get one of his young lady friends pregnant and ruin both their lives before they're ready for that burden. He went back to school last week, returning early and taking his car, so he can kick up his heels in his new apartment (with a roomate) before the semester starts late this month. He kept referring to the apartment as his "love grotto" all summer, which never failed to make me uneasy. I asked my husband, who went along last week to help him get set up in his grotto, to be relentless in encouraging condom use. Anyway, send prophylactic thoughts, too, Daima, for our overly hormonal, alive-and-well family member!

Nice talking with you, my friend. I'll look forward to more conversation in the future. Peace to you, Daima.